Gamebots

Abstract

Welcome to the Gamebots homepage. Gamebots is a project started at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute that seeks to turn the game Unreal Tournament into a domain for research in artificial intelligence.

The core of our project is a modification to Unreal Tournament that allows characters in the game to be controlled via network sockets connected to other programs. The game feeds sensory information for the character over the network connection. Based on this information, the client program can decide what actions the character should take and issues commands back over the network to the game to have the character move, shoot, talk, etc..

If this kind of AI sounds like your thing, we encourage you to give it a try. The original Unreal Tournament modification is available on our file downloads page, along with host of example clients there. We also have a UT2003 modification in our SVN repository and a branch for RIT's UT2004 version. And finally, the you maybe interested in the Java client.

During our transition to Sourceforge, you may want to visit our old website for documentation.

Questions or comments? Contact us.